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BIAFRA: See Where Nnamdi Kanu Was Seen (Photos/Video)

Posted: 19 Oct 2018 04:06 PM PDT

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, has been spotted in Jerusalem, Isreal.

In an alleged photos and video which has gone viral online, Kanu was spotted in Jerusalem on Friday praying.

In the video, the IPOB leader could be seen putting on an Israeli outfit used for prayers while holding a book.

Kanu was last seen in Nigeria on September 10, 2017 after some military men invaded his residence in Afaraukwu community in Abia State.

Confirming the video and pictures, a source close to IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful but chose to be anonymous told DAILY POST, "The video is true, Emma Powerful confirmed it to me."

Watch video below:



Related Topics:  #Biafra #IPOB #NnamdiKanuInJerusalem

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Fayose Allegedly Opens Up To EFCC

Posted: 19 Oct 2018 04:21 AM PDT

Mr. Ayodele Fayose

Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, who is under the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC's detention,  has allegedly admitted knowing a former Minister of State (Defence) Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro, who ferried N1.299billion slush funds to him in a chartered jet.

The former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose is telling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detectives all he knows about the N4.685 billion allegedly withdrawn from the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA).

Fayose spoke yesterday after 72 hours in detention. He admitted knowing a former Minister of State (Defence) Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro, who ferried N1.299billion slush funds to him in a chartered jet.

He also said he has links with Abiodun Agbele, who allegedly bought six choice properties for him in Lagos and Abuja.

But the ex-governor added  drama to his grilling when he wrote the EFCC to demand an additional mattress in his cell.

He said sleeping on two mattresses will be more comfortable for him. The EFCC was looking into his request as at the time of filing this report.

The governor, who had vowed not to speak, made a U-Turn, The Nation learnt.

Agbele and Obanikoro are central to the disbursement and receipt of N1.299billion and $5.377million to him.

"The $5, 377,000 was handed over in cash by Obanikoro to Fayose while the N1.299billion was received by Agbele on Fayose's behalf in the presence of the ex-minister's Aide-de-Camp who also accompanied them to the bank," a source close to the investigation said, adding:

"From the $5million, Fayose gave his Personal Assistant Agbele about $1million which he exchanged to Naira and paid for properties on behalf of the governor.

"These assets include four in Lagos (N1.1billion) and two in Abuja worth about N500million to N700million.

"The properties, worth N1.8billion, were purchased with the said proceeds of crime."

Fayose has been asking the EFCC to take him to court.

The source said: "Fayose will still undergo another round of grilling on Friday (today). We cannot just arraign him in court without obtaining a statement from him.

"By Friday, he has to explain the following:

Did Obanikoro hand over cash to him and Agbele?

What was the N1.299b meant for?

Did Agbele buy properties for him? How did his associate acquire the six properties for him?

"So far, Fayose remains in custody till he is able to respond to issues isolated for him."

Fayose wrote a letter to the EFCC demanding an additional mattress to sleep on.

He said one mattress was too flat to accommodate his frame in the cell.

"He has demanded for a second mattress from the anti-graft agency and I think they are looking into his request. "They want to find out from him the type of mattress needed to make him comfortable in custody," the source said.

Fayose's lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), said efforts had begun to secure his release from EFCC custody.

Ozekhome told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that "Fayose's lawyers are already taking steps to enforce his fundamental human rights by getting him released.

"Yes, his lawyers will go to court to enforce his fundamental human rights. "The EFCC has no right to keep him for over 24 hours. "If they have done that by obtaining a Magistrate Court's Order that will be in the form of "holding charge" which has been declared unconstitutional and illegal by the Supreme Court. Holding charge is illegal. It is unconstitutional.''

Ozekhome said that the section of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) permitting a magistrate to detain a suspect for 14 days was illegal.

According to him, any action outside the provisions of Section 35 of the Constitution, which specifically provides for 24 hours, is illegal and unconstitutional.

The EFCC, also yesterday disowned a tape in which its Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu is said to have claimed that nothing would happen should Fayose die in detention.

The Head of Media Wilson Uwujaren said the purported audio tape was fake.

The statement said: "The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission wishes to alert the general public about an audio recording of a conversation currently circulating in the social media in which the Acting Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Magu, purportedly made comments to the effect that nothing will happen peradventure Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti State, dies in custody.

"Interestingly, the audio tape did not disclose the place where the conversation occurred and the person that Magu was supposedly talking to.

"Purveyors of this fake news especially a former spokesperson of a leading political party, are warned to desist."

Related Topics: #Fayose #EFCC

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Aisha Buhari, Amosun, Sani, Others Lose Out As APC Submits Candidates’ List to INEC

Posted: 19 Oct 2018 03:43 AM PDT

INEC

Political parties have complied with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Thursday deadline in submitting list of it's candidates for the Presidential and the National Assembly 2019 elections.

Below is a detailed report as published by This Day newspaper:

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday made good its resolve not to extend the deadline for the submission of political parties' lists of candidates for the presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for the first quarter of next year as it ended the exercise last night.

The International Conference Center (ICC), Abuja, which the electoral body used as the collection centre was full of activities as political parties' officials made frantic efforts to beat the deadline.

THISDAY gathered at press time that 84 parties had submitted their lists.

For the All Progressives Congress (APC) that was plagued by large scale disputes following its primaries, it was judgement day for the protesters as the party decided on whom to allot its tickets.

The party, said the National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lanre Isa-Onilu, fielded candidates for all the states, including Zamfara, which INEC had said would not be allowed to present candidates because its primaries were not conducted within the stipulated time by the electoral body.

"We submitted applications for all the positions in all the states, including Zamfara," he told THISDAY on phone last night, adding, that he could not give details of the list for the state.

Many heavyweights fell by the way side as their wishes were not met.

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, was met half way by the party as he got his senatorial ticket while his preferred governorship candidate, Mr. Adekunle Akinlade, lost out to Chief Dapo Abiodun. The party's appeals committee threw out Akinlade's petition against Abiodun's nomination.

In Plateau State, former deputy governor of the state, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, who was also a former minister, lost her bid to pick up a senatorial ticket.

In Kaduna State, although the appeals committee upheld the nomination of Senator Shehu Sani as saved by the National Working Committee (NWC), THISDAY sources said his name was eventually not on the list submitted to INEC by the party.

The appeal panel also dismissed the petition written against the emergence of Mr. Tonye Cole as the APC's gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State.

This meant that Senator Magnus Abe would have to wait a bit to realise his ambition to govern the state.

THISDAY also gathered from a source that was privy to the decisions reached by appeals panel, which submitted its report to the NWC on Monday, that it upheld the candidacy of Mr. Uche Nwosu, the son-in-law of Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha.

An intriguing verdict was the decision of the appeal panel to uphold the choice of Senator Shehu Sani as the candidate of the party for the Kaduna Central Senatorial District.

In its report, the appeal panel said it held that the primary conducted by the electoral panel for Kaduna was done in contempt of a court order, adding that the only aspirant cleared by the party to contest the election was Sani.
Yet, THISDAY reliably learnt, Sani's name did not make the party's list.

A reliable information on the report of the APC's appeal panel showed that the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Uguru Usani, was a loser in the highly intricate struggle for the governorship ticket of the APC in Cross River State, losing his appeal against Senator John Eno.

The appeals committee, which considered petitions from the aspirants for the various offices, rejected many of the petitions while upholding the results of the primaries in the various states.

Among other big losers who also lost out in the governorship race according to the committee's report include a brother to the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, Alhaji Mahmoud Halilu, popularly known as Modi, and President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) Bala Bobboi Kaigama.

There was tension within the national headquarters of the party as aspirants for the Senate and House of Representatives besieged it to know the outcome of the screening and probably the list of candidates sent to INEC by the party.

The leadership of the APC had made the list of candidates a top secret and would not even let those who lost at appeals level know their fate until the last day of submission.

However, the party's Director of Organisation, Alhaji Abubakar Kari, finally got out along with some officials of the party in a bus about 2p.m. to submit the list to INEC.

THISDAY gathered from some aggrieved aspirants that there was a directive to secretariat staff not to acknowledge petitions from some of them, claiming that their cases were not attended to by the committee.

Another source told THISDAY that several of the petitions submitted to the appeals panel were either not entertained or dismissed for lacking in substance and that this had not gone down well with many of those whose petitions were not entertained.

Parties Beat Deadline

Apart from the APC and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), others that breasted the tape yesterday were Zenith Labour Party (ZLT), Yes Solidarity Electorate (YES), African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Social Democratic Party (SDP).

THISDAY gathered that in all, 84 parties submitted the list of their candidates as at the time of filing in this report.

The INEC had on several occasions said there would not be any extension to the deadline for the submission of list of candidates for both the National Assembly and presidential elections.

"The last day for the submission of lists of their sponsored candidates (Form CFOO2) and personal particulars (Form CF001) remains 18th of October 2018 for Presidential and National Assembly, and November 2 for Governorship and State Houses of Assembly," it had said.

Nevertheless, the delay in the submission of the list of candidates by political parties, it was learnt was because parties were waiting to reap from the fallout from the primaries conducted by major parties, hence, the delay.

According to an official of the YES party who preferred anonymity, "We can't blame INEC for not extending the date. We were waiting for the major parties to conduct their primaries and reap from the fall out. You can only make money from the sales of Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to run the party."

To ensure smooth process in the submission of forms like THISDAY observed on Wednesday and yesterday, INEC gave party representatives tally, and were attended to turn by turn.

The electoral body assured that the last political party to obtain INEC tally before 12 midnight would be allowed to submit its forms.

While speaking to journalists, the presidential Candidate of the Zenith Labour Party, and former governor of Ondo State, Mr. Olusegun Mimiko, who was at the venue with the National Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, said that the party got tally 73 as at 5.30p.m.

Mimiko said the party was still within the time, while urging INEC to be transparent in the 2019 general elections, stressing that credible elections was the hallmark of democracy.

He revealed that he left the Labour Party where he first obtained his Presidential nomination form because of legal battle in the party.

Also, the National Chairman of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Bishop Amakiri, who was still waiting to be called for submission of his party's forms, said that the delay in submission was to make sure that everything was properly done to avoid any mistake.

He, however, called for the extension of the submission by a month because of the number of registered political parties.

Amakiri said what was witnessed at the submission centre was a confirmation that INEC had expanded the scope.
On his part, the presidential candidate and National Chairman of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Dr. Yunusa Tanko, commended INEC on the arrangement put in place for collection.

Tanko, who was still waiting to submit with tally number 37, said that before people needed to hang around INEC office for submission, but with the large space now provided, all they needed to do was to get a tally and sit in a hall till when the tally number would be called.

He also stressed the need to increase the number of days for submission since the number of political parties had increased to 91.

Related Topics: #INEC #APC #Amosu #2019Election

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PDP Demands Immediate Reconstitution of Osun Electoral Tribunal

Posted: 19 Oct 2018 03:06 AM PDT

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate reconstitution of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, saying that further delay could jeopardise the course of justice in the matter.

The opposition party's submission was predicated on reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been mounting pressure on the judiciary to deny the PDP justice in the determination of the Osun governorship election dispute at the tribunal.

The party therefore frowned on the disbanding of the panel by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachwa, a development which it said if not quickly addressed could send a bad signal on the integrity of the judiciary.

The PDP noted that the President of the Court of Appeal should note that her disbanding of the panel without setting up a new one, shows a deliberate attempt to prevent the PDP from serving the APC and its candidate and to meet the constitutional 180 days timeframe for the determination of the case at the tribunal.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said it was aware that the original panel was disbanded after the APC and its candidate had failed to manipulate and compromise the members to frustrate the case.

He stated: "The PDP therefore urges the President of the Court of Appeal not to bend to the proclivities of the APC and its candidate to bring the vouched reputation of the judiciary into a shameful disrepute in their desperation to hold onto a stolen mandate.

"It is also imperative to state that the 2018 Osun governorship election has become the interest of not only Nigerians but also the global community. As such, every institution that has a role in ensuring fairness and justice, particularly, the judiciary, must rise to its responsibility and not succumb to unlawful and anti-people predilections.

"While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was served, the APC and its candidate evaded service. Consequently, the PDP on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 applied for substituted service, which was slated for hearing today, Thursday, October 18, 2018, only to be informed that the panel has been disbanded on Wednesday without any reason and without providing a new panel to hear our matter.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate reconstitution of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, saying that further delay could jeopardise the course of justice in the matter.

The opposition party's submission was predicated on reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been mounting pressure on the judiciary to deny the PDP justice in the determination of the Osun governorship election dispute at the tribunal.

The party therefore frowned on the disbanding of the panel by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachwa, a development which it said if not quickly addressed could send a bad signal on the integrity of the judiciary.

The PDP noted that the President of the Court of Appeal should note that her disbanding of the panel without setting up a new one, shows a deliberate attempt to prevent the PDP from serving the APC and its candidate and to meet the constitutional 180 days timeframe for the determination of the case at the tribunal.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said it was aware that the original panel was disbanded after the APC and its candidate had failed to manipulate and compromise the members to frustrate the case.

He stated: "The PDP therefore urges the President of the Court of Appeal not to bend to the proclivities of the APC and its candidate to bring the vouched reputation of the judiciary into a shameful disrepute in their desperation to hold onto a stolen mandate.

"It is also imperative to state that the 2018 Osun governorship election has become the interest of not only Nigerians but also the global community. As such, every institution that has a role in ensuring fairness and justice, particularly, the judiciary, must rise to its responsibility and not succumb to unlawful and anti-people predilections.

"While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was served, the APC and its candidate evaded service. Consequently, the PDP on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 applied for substituted service, which was slated for hearing today, Thursday, October 18, 2018, only to be informed that the panel has been disbanded on Wednesday without any reason and without providing a new panel to hear our matter.

"Election petition matters are sui generis, with specific timeframe allotted to various stages up to the final determination. The failure to set up a new panel to timeously hear our application for substituted service on APC and its candidate smacks of a shenanigan to deny our party full justice in the matter."

The opposition party therefore invites Nigerians to note that in its lawful effort to reclaim its stolen mandate, PDP duly filed its petition on Tuesday, October 15, 2018 in accordance with section 285 (6) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which prescribed that judgement must be delivered on or before 180 days.
Source: This Day Newspaper.

Related Topics: #OsunElection #PDPPetitonTribunal

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